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Solved: YouTube No Sound

Are you able to play videos on YouTube but can’t hear a darn thing?!? That’s a bummer! Well, here are a couple of fixes you can try to get your sound back.

8 Ways to Fix ‘YouTube No Sound’ Problems

Following are a few tips to get your sound back so you can play (and HEAR) YouTube videos again. I suggest you do them one by one, eliminating each potential problem, before you move on to the next.

Close any open ‘multimedia stuff’ like any Messenger, music or video player, etc.
Clear ALL your our Cookies, History and Temporary Internet Files. This ensures that NOTHING is interfering with YouTube’s settings.
Update your web browser to the latest version. If you’re holding off on updating your web browser because you’ve fallen in love with the current version… stop. Update your web browser and try playing YouTube videos again. Hey, if this does not work, you can always revert to the old version but at least you know it’s not the cause of the audio problem.
If you’re using a video accelerator of any kind… get rid of it.
If you’re using a YouTube video downloader of any kind… well, get rid of that too.
You sure you using the right Flash player version? If you’ve recently updated Flash and now you cannot hear sound from YouTube, try going back to the previous version.
Check that your PC is using the RIGHT audio device.

– Open Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices.
– Select the Audio tab. (It is important that the Default device is the same as the audio device that you have installed!)

– Click the Volume buttons to ensure the audio device is not set on ‘Mute’.
– Now click the Advanced button to select the speaker configuration.

– Select the Desktop stereo speaker configuration. This is the safest option for most systems.

If all else fails, update your audio driver with DriverFinder!

If you install audio drivers for your Windows PC and it does not bring back sound, you may think that the audio driver is ‘faulty’. Actually, this is not always the case. Oftentimes, it’s simply a matter of uninstalling the old audio driver and installing the new one that does the trick.

It’s the same thing as upgrading your system. Sometimes, upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 does not work. Instead, you should wipe out Windows 7 from your system completely and do a fresh install of Windows 10. The same applies to a Windows 10 to Windows 11 upgrade. Make sure to backup your drivers before you do this!

First, Uninstall Old Audio Drivers

From your Windows Start menu, go to Control Panel -> System -> Hardware tab (steps may vary depending on your Windows version).
Click Device Manager.
Scroll down to the Sound, video and game controllers category.
Select your audio device based on the audio device chipset manufacturer (e.g., Realtek, Intel, C-Media, Creative, Turtle Beach, Yamaha, etc.).
Note: If you cannot find your audio device, scroll down further to the Other devices category.
Right-click the audio device (or unknown device) in the Device Manager and then click Uninstall.
Note: If an option shows to also uninstall the driver software, select that as well.(Whether this option shows depends on the driver software itself.)
Restart your PC.

And Then… Install New Audio Drivers

We recommend using DriverFinder to automatically find the correct, and latest audio drivers for your Windows PC.

Download, install and run a DriverFinder. Activate the program with a license.
Download the updated audio driver recommended.
Install the new audio driver by clicking the Open or Install button next to it in DriverFinder.
Restart your PC.

Now check to see if your sound is working as expected.

If you want to manually update the driver, visit the support site for the PC manufacturer. Look up your device model and download the audio driver for it. If your Windows version is not supported for the device model, you can visit the audio driver support site for the manufacturer and download the driver for your sound card.

Why You Need to Update Sound Drivers

Although early computers used to be relatively muted, apart from the whirring of fans and disks and the odd beep, now they offer a full ‘multi-media experience’. Sound is playing an increasingly important part in this, with PCs being capable of playing music tracks, showing videos with full soundtrack and websites often having audio output.

Computers are also more frequently accepting speech input through dictation systems or responding to spoken commands. Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) allows suitable telephones to be plugged into PCs so that cheap or even free calls can be made.

Why You Need Audio Drivers

Sound may be handled by an audio chipset on your computer’s motherboard, in which case only output sound is available and will be fairly basic. More comprehensive audio is available when a sound card is fitted, allowing a number of devices to be plugged into it. These can include output devices such as earpieces, dedicated speakers and complete home theater systems, and input devices such as microphones. Other audio devices, such as VOIP telephones and voice recorders with the required functionality are usually connected via USB ports.

All these different devices need to communicate with your PC’s operating system. They have to receive and understand commands and then respond in a manner that the operating system understands. The problem is that there are so many types of devices, with varying connections, that the operating system cannot handle all the combinations, especially when new ones are constantly being added.

The problem is resolved by the use of audio drivers or sound drivers. These are particular types of PC drivers that are developed for a specific sound card and have variations for each operating system. They can therefore understand the language of both and provide the necessary translation so that each one understands what the other is saying. It’s really as though the operating system only speaks English but the sound cards all talk different languages and their audio drivers act as interpreters.

Why You Must Update Audio Drivers

Sound card manufacturers issue updated sound drivers all the time to provide consumers additional features, correct known faults or improve performance. You may also experience problems, such as poor sound quality, the microphone not working or being unable to control speaker volume, due to incorrectly installed or outdated drivers. It is good practice, therefore, to update audio drivers periodically, ensuring you have the latest version.

Unfortunately, you cannot just get ANY sound driver to fix audio issues. You need the audio driver that matches your PC brand and model, your Windows operating system, and your sound card. If you’re tech savvy, these information is something you probably know off the top of your head!

If not, then do use an auto-update driver tool such as DriverFinder. It will take care of not just sound drivers,but ALL the drivers your PC needs to function at optimum levels.

Why You MUST Update Your Realtek Network Drivers

For a long time network cards were all about performance. Most of you probably started with a 10 Mbit network card, switching to 100 Mbit later on. Modern computers even have 1 Gbit network cards and servers can use 10 Gbit connections. For wireless network cards a similar summary can be created, using the 802.11 b/g/a/n specification.

But nowadays the network device in your computer is about more than just speed. Speed comes at a cost, particularly due to power consumption. And don’t we all want to go green?

Realtek FE/GbE Family Controller Network Drivers

For computers with a Realtek network card, the latest device drivers offer a lot of control on the network speed and power consumption. That way, you can make sure your notebook battery lasts as long as possible.

A few of the settings the latest Realtek network drivers offer:

Auto Disable Gigabit – this option allows the user to configure if the gigabit option should be auto-disabled on re-link.
Green Ethernet – this option enables the feature to detect the length of the connected network cable and adjust the voltage accordingly (lower for shorter cables).
Interrupt Moderation – when enabled the frequency of the CPU interrupts will be lowered when there is less network traffic. Lower CPU usage, lower power!

There are obviously many more settings, not all relevant to network speed and energy consumption. But in all cases, make sure you install the latest Realtek network drivers to benefit from these features.

Click here to download and install Realtek network drivers.

NVidia Officially Releases Graphics Drivers Version 260.99

After the recent release of 260.63 in beta, NVidia has now officially released version 260.99 of its video drivers, supporting their newest GeForce cards.

This release is primarily for Windows Vista and Windows 7, but there is support for other Windows versions as well.

The installer for the new NVidia graphics driver package has been updated. The user interface has been improved to offer one-click installation as well as customized installation. The customized installations allows the user to select which additional driver components to install, and it also allows you to do a clean install. The clean install will first remove the older drivers from the system, which can help prevent driver update problems.

The NVidia Control Panel has also been improved in version 260.99, again simplifying a lot of things, like multi-display support.

This version of the NVidia display driver also adds support for 3D Blu-ray disc playback when the video card is connected to a 3D TV using HDMI 1.4.

The new Nvidia video cards, GeForce GTS 450 and GT 430 are now supported. And of course there are a number of bug fixes and performance improvements with the new driver. Performance improvements typically pertain to games and high performance graphics applications.

For more details, you can check the official NVidia Release Notes.

Download this new NVidia driver now using DriverFinder!

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